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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Date prompt expansion
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:46:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121126114659.7ec8f1a8@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B35385.8040409@internecto.net>

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:33:25 +0100
Mark van Dijk <lists+zsh@internecto.net> wrote:
> 2) for yesterday I'm using FreeBSD's date command:
> yesterdaysDay=$(/bin/date -v -1d "+%y")
> yesterdaysMonth=$(/bin/date -v -1d "+%m")

(You probably mean "+%d" rather "+%y" in the first one.)

Up to oddities with leap seconds, you can do it by

zmodload zsh/datetime
strftime -s yesterdaysDay "+%d" $(( EPOCHSECONDS - 24 * 60 * 60 ))

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-26 11:33 Mark van Dijk
2012-11-26 11:46 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2012-11-26 12:38   ` Mark van Dijk
2012-11-26 13:01     ` Peter Stephenson
2012-11-26 16:15   ` Aaron Schrab

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